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The New York Times reports:
The Senate report said that the unusual nature of the Trump campaign — staffed by Mr. Trump’s longtime associates, friends and other businessmen with no government experience — “presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities.”
The Senate investigation found that two other people who met at Trump Tower in 2016 with senior members of the Trump campaign — including Mr. Manafort, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son — have “significant connections to Russian government, including the Russian intelligence services.”
The report said that the connections between the Russian government and one of the individuals, Natalia Veselnitskaya, “were far more extensive and concerning than what had been publicly known.”
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JUST OUT: Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia report, focused on counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities. It’s 966 pages long. https://t.co/xr6ZSx7U69
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
Here’s a summary of a document about that Michael Flynn sent to KT McFarland in January 2017 that “originated with a close associate of a Kremlin insider,” per the committee, and that the WH counsel’s office wanted to withhold, citing executive privilege. pic.twitter.com/dPGYQpTHVr
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
“As this experience illustrated, White House intervention significantly hampered and prolonged the Committee’s investigative effort,” report says. “Most importantly, some witnesses were directed by the White House not to tum over potentially privileged information…” pic.twitter.com/k8L1Q1layD
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
Wow–SSCI goes further than Mueller did in describing Konstantin Kilimnik’s relationship with Russian intelligence. “Kilimnik is a Russian intelligence officer,” the report says. kilimnik was Manafort’s longtime business associate. (pg 28) pic.twitter.com/xpbhDechU1
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
“In August 2016, following the Campaign’s tasking, Stone obtained information indicating that John Podesta would be a target of an upcoming release, prior to WikiLeaks
releasing Podesta’s emails on October 7. Stone then communicated this information to Trump…” (173) pic.twitter.com/52vo4SeuEk— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
WikiLeaks/Assange has long maintained Russia was not the source of the hacked Democratic materials. But the committee says it “found significant evidence to suggest that, in the summer of 2016, WikiLeaks
was knowingly collaborating with Russian government officials.” (208) pic.twitter.com/vC1kSbgkN0— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
Umm…why was Roger Stone drafting pro-Russia tweets for Trump in July 2016, as he was teasing more WikiLeaks dumps?
“Many of the draft tweets … mentioned a new
peace deal with Putin, such as “I want a new detente with Russia under Putin.” pic.twitter.com/FIfpKXk694— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
Some details about the day of the Access Hollywood tape/Podesta emails release: Trump campaign team heard about the tape an hour before its release. Stone told Corsi to get Assange to “drop the Podesta emails immediately.” WikiLeaks did so 30 min after tape published. (249) pic.twitter.com/rKfDnJ511f
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
.@MichaelCohen212 said that after he was indicted in SDNY, “he discussed a potential pardon for himself with Jay Sekulow ‘more than half a dozen times.’ Cohen further stated that he understood the pardon discussions had come from Trump through Sekulow.” (463) pic.twitter.com/qO3YFYu8WA
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 18, 2020
Members of the 2016 Trump campaign represented a major counterintelligence risk to the U.S. due to their frequent contacts with individuals with close ties to the Russian government, a bipartisan Senate investigation has concluded. https://t.co/bivT3ssYUq
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) August 18, 2020